Chris Berman reveals new ESPN retirement plan near 50th anniversary

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChris Berman is a few years from fifty years at ESPN and has revealed a retirement plan.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJoining us via satellite from a yacht is publicist Tobias Ahlgren.

3. TA

   Tobias Ahlgren-freeThanks, Hank. Between us and the sea, this is not a retirement. It is the greatest comeback in the history of broadcasting.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLet me ask you, a comeback from what? He hasn't left. He's been there since nineteen seventy-nine.

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   Tobias Ahlgren-freeExactly, Hank.

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   Tobias Ahlgren-freeFifty years of coming back every morning. Nobody has ever come back that many times without leaving. I ring the bell for that.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe bell.

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   Tobias Ahlgren-freeBrass, from a Portuguese schooner. Between us and the sea, I'm told the retirement plan has a farewell tour, a documentary and a cologne.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBut you didn't answer the question. What is the plan? The story says he isn't getting ahead of himself, and that's all it says.

10. TA

    Tobias Ahlgren-freeThe plan is to be unbothered, which is the boldest plan in sports media. Between us and the sea, I have drafted the poster.

11. TA

    Tobias Ahlgren-freeIt has a sunset and a microphone.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA poster for a retirement nobody has scheduled.

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    Tobias Ahlgren-freeHank, I could do the same for you. Twenty-eight years in that chair, and you've never once announced a comeback. Think about the merchandise.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHave you met Chris Berman? Do you know the plan, or only the headline?

15. TA

    Tobias Ahlgren-freeI have the headline. It's a very good headline. The bell is for the headline.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's the same headline I have, and I didn't need a yacht. Chip, what's happening across America?